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Introducing Shelf’d!
The bookkeeping app for people who still love physical books! In October 2026, I published my first independently produced android app, Shelfβd! Shelf’d helps you catalogue your physical book collection into a digital library. Scan ISBN barcodes to instantly add books, organise them into shelves, track your reading status, and keep personal notes and ratings.…
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INCO x Visa CatalyseHer Selection!
Super excited to have been selected to be a part of the fourth INCO x Visa CatalyseHer cohort π . CatalyseHer is designed and led by INCO, a world-leading social enterprise creating a more inclusive and environmentally sustainable economy by supporting the workforce and business leaders of tomorrow. They have worked in over 140 countries…
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Your company just gave you AI credits! What can you do with them?
Got AI credits at work but no idea what to do with them? π€ I’ve written a practical guide to getting real value from them, instead of letting them expire or burning them on uninformed prompts π . Inside: πΉ Why your most tedious tasks are the best place to start πΉ How to use…
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How can you use AI effectively as an Engineer?: Breaking down the jargon
If you’re an engineer, developer, or even a tech enthusiast just trying to figure out where AI can actually fit into your day-to-day work, you’ve probably run into a wall of buzzwords: LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, context windows, hallucinations. It’s easy to feel like you need a PhD or university degree just to…
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How working at an open source company made me a better engineer
When you are contributing to a large open source project, you’re rarely writing code just for your immediate team – unless you are working on an internal product of course. More often than not, you are writing code for people you have never met, in different time zones, with different levels of experience and different…
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Staying Productive at Home: The Reality of Remote Working
I have been remote working as a Software Engineer since 2023, and have never held a fully in-person full time role. Consequently I have developed as a professional in a very different setting to my peers and even my parents, and I find it very interesting to think about how Work From Home (WFH) culture…